Massachusetts to Retain Health-Exchange Vendor CGI

Governor Says State Bringing on Additional Help After Review Found Problems

BOSTON—Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday the state will retain the company behind its online health-insurance exchange but is bringing on additional help after an outside review found problems with the performance of vendor CGI Group Inc.

His decision comes after the federal government in January chose not to renew CGI's contract overseeing key parts of HealthCare.gov, the federal health exchange that got off to a rocky start in October. The site has since seen significant improvement. The Centers for Medicare...